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Jul 24, 2024
Adelaide's Best

Adelaide’s best hot chocolate

Winter has struck. The pilled old coats have been dusted off and removed from the hibernation locale in the closet, set for wear in the CityMag office – orange and navy tartan is this reporter's jacket of choice.

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Sep 6, 2018
Material Culture

Yarn Theory

In a unique work – commissioned specifically for the Art Gallery of South Australia – artist Chiharu Shiota shares a moment with us, pausing in the midst of pulling 1800 different threads together for her astonishing piece, Absence Embodied.

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Aug 3, 2018
Material Culture

Hello humans

Cities rose up out of human imagination, but not by design. Instead they evolved – a necessary, unconscious response to progress’ steady, unstoppable spread. Commerce brought us closer together, adaptability made life spent walking on hard surfaces feel ok.

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Mar 2, 2018
Material Culture

A collection of unreliable truths

Monuments as much to mistakes as they are to memory, books tell a greater story than that contained within their pages.

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Jan 12, 2018
Material Culture

You Feelin’ Me?

Analogue sound unpicks time - its creation and consumption capable of giving a moment existence beyond itself.

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Jun 29, 2017
Material Culture

In the Epworth with Cloister Workrooms

All the possibilities of fabric and thread are explored by creators Christopher Arblaster, Angela Carrig, Lachy Lang, and Andrija Sala in their shared Cloister Workrooms space.

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